Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:55:28 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: unable to use disklabel -B from fixit floppy? Message-ID: <14719.60144.794393.763015@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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Hello all ... hope this is the right group for this .... Last night I had to re-install win98 on my IDE drive (dual-boot) and it happily clobbered my mbr. No problem. I've had this happen before. I booted up 4.0 from my CDs and chose the "Fixit" option from the CD-ROM. I tried: disklabel -B ad0 and I got this back: disklabel: bad bpack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) huh? So, then I just fell back to method #2 which I've done before in going into the partition editor within sysinstall, editing NOTHING but hitting 'w' to write the current information along with the boot sector. This happily worked. But, why did I get the wierd error above? Previously I had compiled and installed a new 4.1-STABLE world. Is the disklabel command from 4.0 somehow incompatible with device entries or something else in 4.1-STABLE? I also tried downloading the fixit.flp image from 4.1-RC, making that, and using that as the floppy from within sysinstall. Still no dice in using disklabel. Is this error message familiar to anybody? -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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